Well, I tried to give an artistic flair to the only 2 closeups of my new niece from the day she was born...still at the hospital. I'm also including a couple others that I'd like critiquing on regarding PP. Thanks in advance.

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3. This one I don't know about the editing. I think it looks cool, but I usually tend to go a little to far.

I like the first 2 shots very much, but then I am partial to black & white. The 3rd picture has an overexposed appearance and the shine on the baby's head looks unnatural to me. I like #4 better than #3.

Thanks for all the comments everybody. As stated, I was at f1.4 for all of these. On the last one, there is actually very little Post work done...basically a small amount of USM and I think that was it. Obviously three is edited a bit more....some seem to love it and some not....that's why I only did it to the one photo. I think it's kind of neat looking and a little different which is good sometimes.

Thanks again for all the comments. Number 1 is my (and my wife's) favorite. I haven't shown the mother or father the pictures yet. I'm hoping they'll like them enough to give me an hour or so with her for an actual shoot. I love babies!!!

idk what browser your using, but there is an add-on for firefox called "FxIF" that when you right click on a photo and go "properties" it tells you a slew of info, heres the exif from the first shot of this set:

I mainly use this to check out how other people shoot certain things, such as night shots, and sports and whatnot, to get a feel for what settings might be a good start for when i shoot something similar